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English Language Arts-Grade 1

Duration

10 Months

Prerequisites

Student Must Have Completed Grade KG

Requirements

Students will need the following materials: printer, cell phone or scanner, pencils, scissors, notebook, erasers, crayons, markers, glue, tape, wide-ruled notebook paper, printer paper, colored paper, and other household items.


Course Summary

In Grade 1 Language Arts, students go on a reading adventure, learning sight words, writing, vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and how letters and sounds connect. They join Cameron the Camper to explore reading with fun tools and activities.

MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS

  • Alphabet letters and sounds
  • Initial, medial, and final sounds
  • Vowels and consonants
  • Short vowel sounds
  • Consonant-vowel-consonant words
  • Read grade-level sight words
  • Asking questions about a text
  • Identifying story elements
  • Recognizing and using new vocabulary
  • Using context clues
  • Onset and rime
  • Identifying the title, author, and illustrator of a book
  • Sequencing and retelling a story
  • Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
  • Common nouns
  • Legible printing
  • Facts and opinions
  • Using multimedia elements
  • Expository writing
  • The writing process
  • Creating quality work products
  • Digraph sounds
  • Blend and segment sounds
  • Reading and writing digraphs
  • Identifying the topic and details in an informative text
  • Retelling an informative text
  • Identifying and use verbs
  • Narrative writing
  • R, L, S, T blends
  • Features of a poem
  • Point of view
  • Identifying and using adjectives
  • Correct handwriting and spacing
  • Sentence structure
  • Opinion writing
  • Participating in collaborative conversations
  • Long vowel sounds
  • Reading and writing extended vowel teams
  • Identifying and defining text features
  • Proper nouns
  • Describing story elements
  • Descriptive words
  • Plural nouns
  • Author’s opinion
  • Comparing and contrasting two texts
  • Pronouns
  • Long vowel sounds
  • Reading and writing extended vowel teams
  • Segment and blend sounds in words
  • Reading grade-level sight words
  • Recognizing and using new vocabulary
  • Using context clues
  • Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
  • Narrator and point of view
  • Retelling narrative texts
  • Identifying the moral of a story
  • Singular and plural possessive nouns
  • Narrative writing
  • Legible printing
  • Creating quality work products
  • Text features
  • The main topic and key details
  • Contractions
  • Double consonants
  • Soft c and soft g
  • Segment and blend syllables
  • Identifying and describing story elements
  • Text evidence
  • Retelling narrative texts
  • Use commas in a series
  • Conjugate regular verbs
  • Researching and using sources
  • R-controlled vowels
  • Interjections
  • Multi-syllabic words
  • Compound words
  • Formal and informal language
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